Odd geom behaviour.

[David Gilbert]

I have a set of 12 disks.  2x9G and 10x4.5G.  I have a setup whereby I
run a gmirror on each pair of disks and then a gconcat on the
mirrors.  Attached is a copy of the gmirror and gconcat lists.

Now... I "shutdown -r" this machine (which happens to be an alpha) and
it shuts down happily.  However, _every_ time it reboots, it wishes to
rebuild the mirrors:

GEOM_MIRROR: Device m1 created (id=4055141955).
GEOM_MIRROR: Device m1: provider da1 detected.
GEOM_MIRROR: Device m1: provider da2 detected.
GEOM_MIRROR: Device m1: provider da2 activated.
GEOM_MIRROR: Device m1: provider mirror/m1 launched.
GEOM_MIRROR: Device m1: rebuilding provider da1.

(x5 more for the other mirrors).  Now this isn't particularly bad, I
suppose, except that the machine is occupied for some number of
minutes after boot with this activity.  No fsck ... the filesystem is
happy.

The machine is available for testing should someone want to look at
it.  In fact, the machine is part of my "retrocluster" of hardware
running FreeBSD and NetBSD (if someone needs hardware with serial
consoles to debug, this is the purpose of the retrocluster).

Anyways... ideas?

(note that in these files, the mirrors are still rebuilding)

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Dave.

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